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pontlevis

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pont⋅lev⋅is

  [pont-lev-is]
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–noun
a drawbridge.
Origin:
1480–90; < F, equiv. to pont bridge (< L pont-, s. of pōns) + levis (< VL *levāticius liftable, adj. deriv. of L levāre to lift
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